Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : python-xml vulnerabilities (USN-890-4)

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Description :

USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the
corresponding updates for PyXML.

Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat
did not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application
linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an
attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.
(CVE-2009-2625, CVE-2009-3720)

It was discovered that Expat did not properly process
malformed UTF-8 sequences. If a user or application linked
against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file,
an attacker could cause a denial of service via application
crash. (CVE-2009-3560).

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